Repatriating psychiatric patients

Repatriating knowledge: variables influencing the ‘‘transfer’’ process

Received: 26 May 2006 Revised: 16 May 2007 Accepted: 30 July 2007 Online publication date: 29 May 2008 Abstract Because of the strategic importance of organizational learning in a global economy, the knowledge that repatriates acquire during international assignments is a valuable resource. Few multinational enterprises, however, actively harvest this knowledge, and little quantitative empirica...

[Letter: Psychiatric classification of psychiatric patients].

Psychiatric nurses' communication with psychiatric patients.

The psychiatric nurses, as a member of the multi-professional mental health team, utilises a goal-directed approach to assist the psychiatric patient in mobilising resources to promote, restore and maintain his mental health as an integral part of his quest for wholeness. This goal-direct approach is the nursing process which comprises assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation. All four...

MEDICAL CLEARANCE OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS Physical Illness in Psychiatric Patients in a Psychiatric Inpatient Setting

increasing role in the provision of acute psychiatric care in recent years.1 Major factors accounting for this trend are the ongoing deinstitutionalization of mentally ill patients and the nationwide epidemic of substance abuse.1 Psychiatric patients may present to the ED with various disorders that may include functional or toxic/metabolic psychosis, the behavioral side effects of medications,...

Restraining Psychiatric Patients

Sir, I was interested to read the report of Akhtar and Jagawat (Journal, April 1993 ) regarding the restraint of psychiatric out-patients. While inhuman treatment of psychiatrically ill persons is to be condemned, the argument against the use of physical restraint seems at best superficial in the case of many psychotic patients. In the paper under discussion, the authors have admitted that rest...